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Quotes About Business

Nordstrom is looking to hire entrepreneurs—empowered self-starters, who seize opportunities to create and build their own businesses; to be franchisees within the larger Nordstrom franchise.
~ Robert Spector
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
~ Robert Sternberg
Apakah di Wall Street atau di sebuah lingkungan kumuh di Surabaya, tidak ada kapitalisme tanpa artikulasi lokal.
~ Robert W. Hefner
One of the great challenges in healthcare technology is that medicine is at once an enormous business and an exquisitely human endeavor; it requires the ruthless efficiency of the modern manufacturing plant and the gentle hand-holding of the parish priest; it is about science, but also about art; it is eminently quantifiable and yet stubbornly not.
~ Robert Wachter
Now, once a business gets a customer into its store, it wants to keep that customer and get that customer to buy multiple products, and that's when the psychiatric "drug trap" kicks in.
~ Robert Whitaker
In 1979, for example, Microsoft gave Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. the right to buy any Microsoft product for $50 per copy, until the end of time. Today most Microsoft applications sell in the $300 to $500 range, ten years from now they may cost thousands each.
~ Robert X. Cringely
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
~ Robin Leach
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
~ Robin Williams
Baby, everyone has worries. The rich have as many as the poor. The healthy as many as the sick. It's a worrisome deal, this life business. You have to learn to mellow, not stay up all night feeding it
~ Robyn Carr
everyone has worries. The rich have as many as the poor. The healthy as many as the sick. It's a worrisome deal, this life business. You have to learn to mellow, not stay up all night feeding it.
~ Robyn Carr
She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay. Did you suggest she ask him? Mom laughed. Of course not. Business is slow.
~ Lisa Lutz
I don't want her to either, which is exactly what I've been saying. Still, there's a part of me that hates that our family businesses- the very things that have kept Joy fed, clothed, and housed- are so embarrassing to her...We raised our children to be Americans, but what we wanted were proper Chinese sons and daughters.
~ Lisa See
The Hirsch family had gone somewhere. Why else would they close the shop?
~ Lois Lowry
Better it seemed to export cheese or cloth, but it was true that fortunes were made in the military trade. Though seldom by the soldiers, any more than by the cheeses. While
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Though Chris was well trusted by both of them, he rarely involved himself in business. "Matt will be here soon. Send him in when he arrives, and I'll go—" he bobbed his eyebrows. "—prepare your girlfriend." "She is not my—" Damn it, Chris was already walking away, rendering his protests useless.
~ Lori Foster
The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They're different. They've signed on the dotted line.
~ Lorrie Moore
The biggest undergraduate major by far in the United States is business. Twenty-two percent of all bachelor's degrees are awarded in that field. Ten percent of all bachelor's degrees are awarded in education.
~ Louis Menand
She sells seashells by the seashore.
~ Louis Sachar
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Don't go to school, I'm a businessman—girl, I mean.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Already a mature businessman, he relied on Andrews only as a technician and assumed control of all other aspects of the business.
~ Ron Chernow
A very smart monopolist, Rockefeller kept prices low enough to retain control of the market but not so low as to wipe out all lingering competitors.
~ Ron Chernow
The Morgans were never litigious.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller knew that if he got greedy, other products could be substituted for kerosene, and this, too, curbed his appetite for excess profits.
~ Ron Chernow